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If a group of people you knew (let's limit it to say, 10 people) were stranded somewhere with no hope of escape or rescue, what role would you play? How do you see your 'society' evolving?

I'd try to be like the professor on Gilligan's Island. I'd try to make the stuff we need out of the stuff we have. I'd also kill Gilligan right off the bat. That idiot screwed up all my plans for getting us off the island.

If a group of people you knew (let's limit it to say, 10 people) were stranded somewhere with no hope of escape or rescue, what role would you play? How do you see your 'society' evolving?

Hmmm... how big is the place? How many women? I'd be the guy who is put out to stud, in order to populate the island with genetically superior offspring.

I have a feeling I'd either want a hand in forming the rules, or I'd run off in a huff to go hunt some rabbits or something. I'd be the brooding outsider, or one of the bossy insiders. It's my first-born syndrome coming through.

I think I'd rather enjoy it, actually. I'd work right away to set up shelters and so on. The people I'm thinking of that I could be stranded with would quickly wear on my patience however...

I'd be very serious about getting some action though :p

I'd fashion a primitive arsenal of weaponry from sticks and rocks and take the leadership position. From there it would become some kind of monarchy. I'd also be head of the group's church so as to make my rule by divine right.

I'd try to be like the professor on Gilligan's Island. I'd try to make the stuff we need out of the stuff we have. I'd also kill Gilligan right off the bat. That idiot screwed up all my plans for getting us off the island.

So you can build a radio out of coconuts but a boat is just too damn complicated.

Hmmm... how big is the place? How many women? I'd be the guy who is put out to stud, in order to populate the island with genetically superior offspring.
Of course you would. Yikes! No birth control! Nooooooo! there goes my 'lots of action' ideas:( I wouldn't want to be breeding....well, I'd be awfully scared to do it there I suppose.

I think you'd have to pick a group of people you know that you might be travelling with sometime...for me it's colleagues. Yuck.

So you can build a radio out of coconuts but a boat is just too damn complicated.

Yeah, I always wondered that :confused:

Screw, assuming the other 9 people are women.

i'd end up taking on the motherly role, it always happens

Well, radios are pretty simple. A little wire, a rusty piece of metal, a needle, and a piezioelectric earbud are all you need for a simple radio. Boats require all kinds of complicated hard to find stuff, lumber, nails, tar or pitch for waterproofing, etc. Where would I ever find that stuff? :rolleyes:

I'd fashion a primitive arsenal of weaponry from sticks and rocks and take the leadership position. From there it would become some kind of monarchy. I'd also be head of the group's church so as to make my rule by divine right.
Yeah, well, I'd help the revolution bring you down...canabalism is okay when it's ritualistic:).

No religion. I'd fight that tooth and nail.

Back to brooding outsider for me...I just hope there's a hotty brooding outsider guy to keep me warm...and a brooding outsider chick to keep my brain working.

I'd try to be like the professor on Gilligan's Island. I'd try to make the stuff we need out of the stuff we have. I'd also kill Gilligan right off the bat. That idiot screwed up all my plans for getting us off the island.

By the way, there is no hope of rescue, that was one of the initial "rules".

I'd try to be like the professor on Gilligan's Island. I'd try to make the stuff we need out of the stuff we have. I'd also kill Gilligan right off the bat. That idiot screwed up all my plans for getting us off the island.
id be the cook and make the "gilligan jerky"

By the way, there is no hope of rescue, that was one of the initial "rules".
No big deal. We can still make soap, alcohol, some medicines, maybe even a radio.

Yeah, well, I'd help the revolution bring you down...canabalism is okay when it's ritualistic:).

No religion. I'd fight that tooth and nail.

Back to brooding outsider for me...I just hope there's a hotty brooding outsider guy to keep me warm...and a brooding outsider chick to keep my brain working.

I wanna be on your island. I promise to put the woven toilet seat down.

Hmmm... how big is the place? How many women? I'd be the guy who is put out to stud, in order to populate the island with genetically superior offspring.

how dare you take my position - now we must fight to the death to impress the women

I'd be the bastard who argue with everyone and drive the whole group crazy with murderous rage. I hope to find some redeeming feature to save my ass before they start thinking about cannibalism.

Of course you would. Yikes! No birth control! Nooooooo! there goes my 'lots of action' ideas:( I wouldn't want to be breeding....well, I'd be awfully scared to do it there I suppose.

I think you'd have to pick a group of people you know that you might be travelling with sometime...for me it's colleagues. Yuck.

No, you can't do that to me. You don't know the freaks I work with. I'm a travelling computer engineer (trust you don't want to know any more than that about it unless you're trying to sleep). You can't strand me with ten fat, pale, nerdy, bad-skin-having, bald, oddly smelling men. Can I pretend I'm travelling with my photographer friend and his models?

All the weakling pretty girls would be kind of in a bind...I think I'd teach them ritual healing and spiritualism to get them a boost in terms of their status. None of this 'ug, I am man, service me now' crap.

No religion. I'd fight that tooth and nail.

I'll be bringing back the classics like Bacchus, Dionysus and Pan :cool:

Well, I guess you'll miss my Festival of Pan and Bacchus. Everflowingmango wine, mountains of seafood, and an orgy to boot! (I'll figure out how to get that stuff later) I guess you'll be left out.....

I would almost immediately get frustrated with everyone else and go out on my own. I would then work to convince the other people on the island to work for me.

Well, radios are pretty simple. A little wire, a rusty piece of metal, a needle, and a piezioelectric earbud are all you need for a simple radio. Boats require all kinds of complicated hard to find stuff, lumber, nails, tar or pitch for waterproofing, etc. Where would I ever find that stuff? :rolleyes:

Have you ever actually constructed a radio, even assuming you can't trasmit? It's not really that simple unless you start with a board with everything already soddered in place.

EDIT: Damn, I hate when I miss sarcasm.

Have you ever actually constructed a radio, even assuming you can't trasmit? It's not really that simple unless you start with a board with everything already soddered in place.
I've built a little crystal radio with a germanium diode once. I've seen plans for one using rusty metal as the crystal.

how dare you take my position - now we must fight to the death to impress the women

As we would want to make the children as attractive to the outside world as possible for that point, decades away, when our population rejoins the rest of the population. I think fighting to the death would not increase the survivability of our offspring among the general population of the world. I say we simply strip naked and let the women choose.

As we would want to make the children as attractive to the outside world as possible for that point, decades away, when our population rejoins the rest of the population. I think fighting to the death would not increase the survivability of our offspring among the general population of the world. I say we simply strip naked and let the women choose.
And if we choose each other, spurning both of you?

Arrogance...assuming we even want to breed with you, or continue the species...I mean, what would be the point? And OWWW!!!! It isn't called labour for nothing...no amount of brief pleasure would make me do that in non-sterile, weird surroundings!

I would become your HerPower Goddess. Your deity/matriarch! Taste my leather!

If a group of people you knew (let's limit it to say, 10 people) were stranded somewhere with no hope of escape or rescue, what role would you play? How do you see your 'society' evolving? i most likely would join forces with the best looking guy there, scheme and kill everyone, eat them, and die having unmatched sex. really, i would. because you are so NOT getting out of the situation.

i most likely would join forces with the best looking guy there, scheme and kill everyone, eat them, and die having unmatched sex. really, i would. because you are so NOT getting out of the situation.

I would worship Occidio Multus as the island's tropical goddess.

I would become your HerPower Goddess. Your deity/matriarch! Taste my leather!

I would not stand for any monarch, other than myself of course.

You know what? With all this bickering none of you get to listen to my radio or get any of the alcohol out of my still.

i would probably fight any attempt by any of the other 9 people to set up leadership, and if they did i would probably go sulk in the corner until i was hungry and then id go back and try to overthrow the leader. im good at doing that in very small groups with an organised heirarchy.

then i would spend the rest of the time moping about, swimming, lazing in the sun

Yikes...I think Occidio Multus and I would have to battle it out for feminine supremacy...that could be a tough one...I think she might be able to kick my ass, so I'd have to poison hers...but would I want to? Should I become a minion? I'm so torn...

You know what? With all this bickering none of you get to listen to my radio or get any of the alcohol out of my still.

Nooo, You fiend! You cut off my supply of mango wine! How can my followers cavort in the name of Pan now?

I would worship Occidio Multus as the island's tropical goddess.
hopefully, you arent a vegetarian. oh, and dont worry, we could talk , also.

i would probably fight any attempt by any of the other 9 people to set up leadership, and if they did i would probably go sulk in the corner until i was hungry and then id go back and try to overthrow the leader. im good at doing that in very small groups with an organised heirarchy.

then i would spend the rest of the time moping about, swimming, lazing in the sun
I think you could be my brooding outsider companion... :p

I wanna be Locke.

Yikes...I think Occidio Multus and I would have to battle it out for feminine supremacy...that could be a tough one...I think she might be able to kick my ass, so I'd have to poison hers...but would I want to? Should I become a minion? I'm so torn...

Have a dualistic religion. I've got more than enough worshipping to go around. :D

Nooo, You fiend! You cut off my supply of mango wine! How can my followers cavort in the name of Pan now?
Relax, you can still get high from the tropane alkaloids in those trumpet shaped flowers. Just don't use too much or you'll die.

Yikes...I think Occidio Multus and I would have to battle it out for feminine supremacy...that could be a tough one...I think she might be able to kick my ass, so I'd have to poison hers...but would I want to? Should I become a minion? I'm so torn... the only way you could poison me is if you ate the poison yourself, then i ingested it when i consumed you.

John Locke on "Lost", I'd kill food and be generally a little bit odd.

hopefully, you arent a vegetarian. oh, and dont worry, we could talk , also.

Haha, vegetarian, me? I was a lineman....

I wanna be Locke.
Hahahhahaa...so what I was thinking...at least until the last episode where he got all whiney and bitchy about maybe being crippled again...he was so zen before that. He would have made a good sugar daddy if he'd stayed mysterious!

But yeah...I'd like to be of vital use to the group...but a bit apart of it...above the law, as it were:).

Sawyer would be my plaything, and Sayid would be my permanent boy toy. Sigh.

You know what? With all this bickering none of you get to listen to my radio or get any of the alcohol out of my still.

I say we have should have an alcoholic communism. We should start distributing DC's alcohol immediately.

And since I came up with the idea, I get to decide who gets what.

Relax, you can still get high from the tropane alkaloids in those trumpet shaped flowers. Just don't use too much or you'll die.

Ahh, excellent thinking. ;)

And if we choose each other, spurning both of you?

Well, I guess I just have to happy the huts aren't soundproof.


Arrogance...assuming we even want to breed with you, or continue the species...I mean, what would be the point? And OWWW!!!! It isn't called labour for nothing...no amount of brief pleasure would make me do that in non-sterile, weird surroundings!

Arrogance? Five seconds ago you were looking for some stud to while away the hours with and now we're arrogant for letting YOU choose the stud? Now the breeding part I get, but you can't have sex stranded on island and expect no babies to happen. Are you Catholic or something?

I'd probably end up as the Drunken Buffoon or Island Idiot. I always get screwed like that.

the only way you could poison me is if you ate the poison yourself, then i ingested it when i consumed you.
I guess that's decided me, I'd have to lead the opposing faction and keep you and your man-thing from killing and eating us. That would likely have to mean your demise, since I suspect you are tenacious in your cannibalistic desires. Sigh. Well, you'd make great scary story fodder to keep the kids in line...who knows, you could be the model for all the Crone stories (wise trickster, very revered).

"Smarten up or Occidio Multus will come back to eat you in your sleep!"

I say we have should have an alcoholic communism. We should start distributing DC's alcohol immediately.
And since I came up with the idea, I get to decide who gets what.



Please, a small alottement to the Cult of Pan? I'll die if I have anymore of those flowers... and if you do, you can become a member of the cult.

if i were stranded forever on a desert island with a selct group of people? i think first, i would make a primitave bucket out of poop and leaves. then ferment some of my urine into a fine brandy. we'd party the night away by the light of the moon. in the morning, we'd all wake up pregnant (all of us. especially the guys) and ridden with dysentary. it'll be a nice change of pace.

I guess that's decided me, I'd have to lead the opposing faction and keep you and your man-thing from killing and eating us. That would likely have to mean your demise, since I suspect you are tenacious in your cannibalistic desires. Sigh. Well, you'd make great scary story fodder to keep the kids in line...who knows, you could be the model for all the Crone stories (wise trickster, very revered).

"Smarten up or Occidio Multus will come back to eat you in your sleep!" no one but my partner in crime would make it through the first night~!!!! heheheh

I think you could be my brooding outsider companion... :p
sounds good to me

Arrogance? Five seconds ago you were looking for some stud to while away the hours with and now we're arrogant for letting YOU choose the stud? Now the breeding part I get, but you can't have sex stranded on island and expect no babies to happen. Are you Catholic or something?
Hell no!

I was all for the wild island sex until I thought about bearing children without morphine *shudder*. I suppose we could get creative...but I think I'd just turn warrior/shaman on you and seek pleasure in controlling my little human puppets...

Please, a small alottement to the Cult of Pan? I'll die if I have anymore of those flowers... and if you do, you can become a member of the cult.

As long as I get some of those flowers.

no one but my partner in crime would make it through the first night~!!!! heheheh
Well they wouldn't have...had you not revealed your plan so prematurely! Bahhahahahaa!

i would be king and all others would be subservant to my whims of course :rolleyes:

no one but my partner in crime would make it through the first night~!!!! heheheh

I'm a light sleeper, sleep very little and none too easy to surprise. All the luck there, OM.

I was all for the wild island sex until I thought about bearing children without morphine *shudder*. I suppose we could get creative...but I think I'd just turn warrior/shaman on you and seek pleasure in controlling my little human puppets...

No, choose the path of Pan! He shall rain his blessings by supplying whatever form of birth control his followers desire. We need a shaman for my ceremonies!

I say we have should have an alcoholic communism. We should start distributing DC's alcohol immediately.

And since I came up with the idea, I get to decide who gets what.
You'll get my booze when you pry it from my cold dead hands! I knew there was a reason I studied Pentjak Silat and Kali. Now it's going to come in handy.

As long as I get some of those flowers.

Join me, and all you desire shall be granted.

Hell no!

I was all for the wild island sex until I thought about bearing children without morphine *shudder*. I suppose we could get creative...but I think I'd just turn warrior/shaman on you and seek pleasure in controlling my little human puppets...

You know, Sin, there are other things to be done that don't result in children. I'm all for "worshipping" my island goddess(es) in whatever way suits her(them).

Na, all your base belon....oh stop me now!

DC, join my matriarchy, and be revered above all men (but never above the women...men on the bottom ;) ) for your distilling prowress!

You know, Sin, there are other things to be done that don't result in children. I'm all for "worshipping" my island goddess(es) in whatever way suits her(them).
Well then...as long as you're in for a little of that...

Now turn, bend, and cough ;) .

You'll get my booze when you pry it from my cold dead hands! I knew there was a reason I studied Pentjak Silat and Kali. Now it's going to come in handy.

I will send Vetalia after you once he starts having withdrawals. He will be all hopped up on flower and won't feel pain.

While you two are fighting, I can go ahead and claim the flowers and the booze.

I think I'd end up being one of the leaders of the group. I'd spend my time hunting and gathering food, seeing to everyones medical attention and keeping everyone's spirit alive by trying to make them laugh while we figure out a way to get off the island.

And I'd want Drunk commies to be one of the people I'm stranded with because he's brilliant enough to figure out a way off the island and savage enough to do whatever might be needed if push came to shove.

I would have to say that I would be the screaming idiot that goes crazy. Then everyone else would plan to kill me. Plain and simple...

Well then...as long as you're in for a little of that...

Now turn, bend, and cough ;) .

"What's Sin doing to Joc in there?"

"I don't know but he's either really enjoying it or she's killing him!"

You know, Sin, there are other things to be done that don't result in children. I'm all for "worshipping" my island goddess(es) in whatever way suits her(them).
you can do like the egyptians and use a lemon half as a diaphragm. eeewwww.
i also have an addition to mine. after giving my group dysentary, i would have to eat my friend mike. I promised him junior year that if we were ever stranded together, i'd eat him. not because i'd be starving per se, jsut because he looks tasty. like a veal calf.

I will send Vetalia after you once he starts having withdrawals. He will be all hopped up on flower and won't feel pain.
While you two are fighting, I can go ahead and claim the flowers and the booze.

*Flies in to drug induced beserker rage*

ALL SHALL FALL BEFORE THE GREAT GOD PAN!

*draws quarterstaff, charges DC*

So, general consensus seems to be more Lord of the Flies than Utopia?

Na, all your base belon....oh stop me now!

DC, join my matriarchy, and be revered above all men (but never above the women...men on the bottom ;) ) for your distilling prowress!
Meh, sounds OK.

Meh, sounds OK.
Ha! I win! Now back off...DC is MINE!

So, general consensus seems to be more Lord of the Flies than Utopia?

I think it might be worse. I eat flowers and worship Pan, that's a pretty bad sign!

*Flies in to drug induced beserker rage*

ALL SHALL FALL BEFORE THE GREAT GOD PAN!

*draws quarterstaff, charges DC*
*soils pants*
*picks up two 2.5 foot long hardwood sticks and meets Vetalia's charge*

So, general consensus seems to be more Lord of the Flies than Utopia?

Well, if everyone was smart, and just did what I said, we could have utopia. But since it seems that everyone has their own silly little agenda, Lord of the Flies it is.

what is so imperfect about the scenario i present?

Well, if everyone was smart, and just did what I said, we could have utopia. But since it seems that everyone has their own silly little agenda, Lord of the Flies it is.
No thanks. That movie was fucked up. I mean like Michael Jackson fucked up.

*soils pants*
*picks up two 2.5 foot long hardwood sticks and meets Vetalia's charge*

*Engages in harsh, brutal melee. DC is disarmed*

HAH! NOW YOU SHALL FEEL THE WRATH OF MY GOD, PREPARE TO MEET MY MIGHTY STAFF!

*the drug wears off*

Yesssh, prepare... to...meet my shaft, or some...thing....or....sleep....yes, thatsh it....

*collapses in to sleep*

I changed my mind....

I would sit in a chair, look at you lot do your crazy things and long for popcorn to go with my entertainment.

*Engages in harsh, brutal melee. DC is disarmed*

HAH! NOW YOU SHALL FEEL THE WRATH OF MY GOD, PREPARE TO MEET MY MIGHTY STAFF!

*the drug wears off*

Yesssh, prepare... to...meet my shaft, or some...thing....or....sleep....yes, thatsh it....

*collapses in to sleep*

Son of a bitch, now how am I going to get the still?

*eats a flower*

Hey, are there any other little groups of stranded people around? We could establish trade and friendship. Either that or wage war for their resources.

Hey, are there any other little groups of stranded people around? We could establish trade and friendship. Either that or wage war for their resources.

*awakens*
Wow, that was wierd.

Oh, and by the way:
Yes, we need more mangos. And flower plants!

Do we have anyone we could, *ahem* "trade" for these things? I'd rather do that then fight.

So, general consensus seems to be more Lord of the Flies than Utopia?

I think Lord of the Flies is just funnier and, thus, encouraged on a forum, but I think in RL we would move a bit towards a weak hierarchy with people falling into various roles. Some would be more active in creating shelter, fire and finding food and some would be alcohol-swilling idio... nevermind. Anyway, I think, like anything, it would be a somewhere in the middle of that spectrum.

I think Lord of the Flies is just funnier and, thus, encouraged on a forum, but I think in RL we would move a bit towards a weak hierarchy with people falling into various roles. Some would be more active in creating shelter, fire and finding food and some would be alcohol-swilling idio... nevermind. Anyway, I think, like anything, it would be a somewhere in the middle of that spectrum.
Yeah, we all talk big, but I think ultimately it would be in our best interests to get along as much as possible for the sake of survival. It would be interesting to see what social roles would change...would the popular folks still be popular? Would the outsiders be revered for specific skills? Would Jocabia really let me....

oops...I digress, sorry!

if there is no hope of rescuing or escape i would just kill myself... whats the point of living? :) :upyours: ... damn straight

After you lot are beating each other up, I'll patch you up nice and new.

And if you aren't nice, I'll just stand there and laugh at your cardiac arrest! Hah!

Gifts of beer, woven toilet seats and "other" will be accepted from this point on.

if there is no hope of rescuing or escape i would just kill myself... whats the point of living? :) :upyours: ... damn straight
Wow, that's kind of a bleak outlook. You still have people around you who you can interact with, work to keep you busy, and plenty of leisure time to relax.

Yeah, we all talk big, but I think ultimately it would be in our best interests to get along as much as possible for the sake of survival. It would be interesting to see what social roles would change...would the popular folks still be popular? Would the outsiders be revered for specific skills? Would Jocabia really let me....

oops...I digress, sorry!

My honest, less amusing role would more likely be hunting and fishing and carrying water, etc. I'm a fit, thiry-year-old with training in survival in most climes and terrains. I can carry over a hundred pounds for twenty miles provided I can find a way to support it that's not awkward. It would just make sense for me to spending more of my time doing those kinds of things. I could teach those who were less capable of swimming, running, carrying (of either sex, just stop Sin's inevitable comment) to set and clear traps to catch small critters and to find edible fruit, nuts, etc. I'm also trained in first aid and could pass that information along to anyone interested. Contrary to popular belief, I don't think being the most useful or even extremely useful propels you into the role of leader, but more it's usually decided on your vision and charisma.

Yeah, we all talk big, but I think ultimately it would be in our best interests to get along as much as possible for the sake of survival. It would be interesting to see what social roles would change...would the popular folks still be popular? Would the outsiders be revered for specific skills? Would Jocabia really let me....

oops...I digress, sorry!

But I would still try to become the tribe stud. Lots of little Jocabia's to help out.

I can build fires no problem, and am good at carving wood, so I guess I'd be an engineer and cook?

I could teach those who were less capable of swimming, running, carrying (of either sex, just stop Sin's inevitable comment)
I wasn't even going to say anything! Sheesh! I figure you were already pretty gender neutral there...what am I, the feminist police?

Contrary to popular belief, I don't think being the most useful or even extremely useful propels you into the role of leader, but more it's usually decided on your vision and charisma.I think most people know that...but leaders can be deposed and eaten, whereas useful folk probably won't be. :D

If a group of people you knew (let's limit it to say, 10 people) were stranded somewhere with no hope of escape or rescue, what role would you play? How do you see your 'society' evolving?

hmm, i'd grow vegitables fungii and hunt, and i'd keep reminding them i could survive on my own if they do something wrong.

I would be the lazy guy who eats all the food and I'll end up being killed and eaten by the others.

Mmm, me *drools*

And if you weren't getting out the bribes already, I have a container load of condoms buried on the island.

Now no smart-arses try to get any without the appropriate bribe!

A container of claymore mines happened to wash up next to the container of condoms. :D

I can fish, know some first aid, depending on the location I can find edible and medicinal plants, I'm good at building stuff, and although I'm a little out of shape right now I'm still pretty strong. I guess I'd be a jack of all trades assistant to the specialists.

I would be the lazy guy who eats all the food and I'll end up being killed and eaten by the others.

Mmm, me *drools*

That's the first one that made me laugh out loud. You trying to get me in trouble at work?

And if you weren't getting out the bribes already, I have a container load of condoms buried on the island.

Well, looks like I'll have to build one of my fires, gather some latex, and set up my own condom making facility....

That's the first one that made me laugh out loud. You trying to get me in trouble at work?
Wh... What are you looking at me like that? ... Stay away! Away from my juicy meat!

I can fish, know some first aid, depending on the location I can find edible and medicinal plants, I'm good at building stuff, and although I'm a little out of shape right now I'm still pretty strong. I guess I'd be a jack of all trades assistant to the specialists.

Yeah, I'm not as good with the medicinal plants. I can spot aloe, but that's cuz I'm a hippy. I want to get stranded with DC, Sin, and seven other women.

I think I'd hope there was at least one woman there with her tubes tied and that she was interested in rolling in the hay. There was more to this thought, but it would definitely get me drawn and quartered.

If you are stranded on an island with a group of ten people you know and your clothes were destroyed in the plane crash would you be jumping around with glee or hiding behind a tree? :p

Bump.

No bribes have yet been forthcoming?

Be the Sooth Sayer of Doom. RUn away and isolate myself for 4 months. THen come back with tattered clothings looking like I'm about to die screaming "Your Doomed!! Dooomedd!! DooomEd!!!", then dissapear and live alone by myself for another year.. Then return and Scream "Flee Flee run for your lives!! Your Doomed!! Doomed!!!"

Repeat till I finally die of madness.

first of all, i would thank the universe, fate, and even consider picking up religion for my newfound stroke of luck:)

then id go work on whatever would have to be done. Im definitely not the leader type, so i wouldnt do that, even if asked. I have a little bit of outdoorsy skills, if rusty, and im extremely resilient, and in okish shape (it would get better quick in a situation like that)

If i was in a group of other fully capable outdoorsy people, i would initially help out with whatever tasks required the most help, and then once things were established, id prolly start wandering and exploring, looking for stuff.

and id definitely be in on the fermenting once we got established. read a pretty good article claiming that was the driving force on the switch from hunter-gatherer to agricultural based lifestyles.

Hahahhahaa...so what I was thinking...at least until the last episode where he got all whiney and bitchy about maybe being crippled again...he was so zen before that. He would have made a good sugar daddy if he'd stayed mysterious!

But yeah...I'd like to be of vital use to the group...but a bit apart of it...above the law, as it were:).

Sawyer would be my plaything, and Sayid would be my permanent boy toy. Sigh.
Do you people not want to type spoilers? :rolleyes:

Be the Sooth Sayer of Doom. RUn away and isolate myself for 4 months. THen come back with tattered clothings looking like I'm about to die screaming "Your Doomed!! Dooomedd!! DooomEd!!!", then dissapear and live alone by myself for another year.. Then return and Scream "Flee Flee run for your lives!! Your Doomed!! Doomed!!!"

Repeat till I finally die of madness.Wow, never thought of that job!

Aww maaan, that sounds fun. :(

If a group of people you knew (let's limit it to say, 10 people) were stranded somewhere with no hope of escape or rescue, what role would you play? How do you see your 'society' evolving?
i would be the first to re-discover the fermentation process.

I'd pimp out the local monkey population.